Physics Letters BPub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139264
Naman Kumar
{"title":"Non-linear equation of motion for higher curvature semiclassical gravity","authors":"Naman Kumar","doi":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139264","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139264","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We derive the non-linear semiclassical equation of motion for a general diffeomorphism-invariant theory of gravity by leveraging the thermodynamic properties of closed causal horizons. Our work employs two complementary approaches. The first approach utilizes perturbative quantum gravity applied to a Rindler horizon. The result is then mapped to a stretched light cone, which can be understood as a union of Rindler planes. Here, we adopt the semiclassical physical process formulation, encapsulated by <span><math><mo>〈</mo><mi>Q</mi><mo>〉</mo><mo>=</mo><mi>T</mi><mi>δ</mi><msub><mrow><mi>S</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>g</mi><mi>e</mi><mi>n</mi></mrow></msub></math></span> where the heat-flux <span><math><mo>〈</mo><mi>Q</mi><mo>〉</mo></math></span> is related to the expectation value of stress-energy tensor <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>a</mi><mi>b</mi></mrow></msub></math></span> and <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>S</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>g</mi><mi>e</mi><mi>n</mi></mrow></msub></math></span> is the generalized entropy. The second approach introduces a “higher curvature” Raychaudhuri equation, where the vanishing of the quantum expansion Θ pointwise as required by restricted quantum focusing establishes an equilibrium condition, <span><math><mi>δ</mi><msub><mrow><mi>S</mi></mrow><mrow><mtext>gen</mtext></mrow></msub><mo>=</mo><mn>0</mn></math></span>, at the null boundary of a causal diamond. While previous studies have only derived the linearized semiclassical equation of motion for higher curvature gravity, our work resolves this limitation by providing a fully non-linear formulation without invoking holography.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20162,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters B","volume":"861 ","pages":"Article 139264"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142989509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physics Letters BPub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139282
Chen Ma , Pan-Pan Zhang , Bin Wu , Zhen-Ming Xu
{"title":"The Kramers escape rate of phase transitions for the 6-dimensional Gauss-Bonnet AdS black hole with triple phases","authors":"Chen Ma , Pan-Pan Zhang , Bin Wu , Zhen-Ming Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139282","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139282","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this study, we obtain specific picture of the phase transitions for the 6-dimensional Gauss-Bonnet Anti-de Sitter (AdS) black hole with triple phases, using the generalized free energy we constructed and Kramers escape rate in stochastic motion. There are six possible phase transition processes between the three different stable states (small, medium, and large black hole states). During these phase transitions, there are two key temperatures. One is the temperature at which the medium black hole state emerges, and the other is the temperature at which the small black hole state annihilates. Meanwhile, two dynamic equilibrium processes are formed. One is a dynamic equilibrium of the transition from the medium black hole state to the large black hole state and the transition from the small black hole state to the medium black hole state. The other is a dynamic equilibrium of the transition from the small black hole state to the medium black hole state and the transition from the medium black hole state to the small black hole state.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20162,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters B","volume":"861 ","pages":"Article 139282"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143035243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physics Letters BPub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139293
Wontae Kim , Mungon Nam
{"title":"Validity of black hole complementarity in an accelerating Schwarzschild black hole","authors":"Wontae Kim , Mungon Nam","doi":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139293","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139293","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Black hole complementarity has been well understood in spherically symmetric black holes. To study its validity for an accelerating Schwarzschild black hole, which has a preferred direction, we perform the thought experiment proposed by Susskind and Thorlacius and further investigate the criteria set by Hayden and Preskill. First, we obtain the conserved energy of the accelerating Schwarzschild black hole from the quasilocal formalism, connecting the ADT current with the linearized Noether current at the off-shell level. Using the conserved energy, we conduct thought experiments based on the Page time and the scrambling time, which show that black hole complementarity remains valid, although the energy required for the duplication of information depends on the angle due to the axisymmetric metric.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20162,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters B","volume":"861 ","pages":"Article 139293"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143072387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physics Letters BPub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139289
Baoyu Tan
{"title":"EGUP corrected thermodynamics of RN-AdS black hole with quintessence matter","authors":"Baoyu Tan","doi":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139289","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139289","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Reissner-Nordström anti de Sitter (RN-AdS) black hole, characterized by electric charge and negative cosmological constant, exhibits a rich thermodynamics structure. In this paper, we consider the influence of quintessence, a hypothetical dark energy component with negative pressure. We have computed the extended generalized uncertainty principle (EGUP) corrections to the thermodynamics of RN-AdS black hole, including Hawking temperature, heat capacity, entropy function and pressure. Furthermore, as a special case of EGUP, we have computed and compared the result obtained from the generalized uncertainty principle (GUP) with those from the extended uncertainty principle (EUP). This work contributes to the understanding of the interplay between fundamental physics and the macroscopic properties of black holes, offering a novel perspective on the thermodynamics of RN-AdS black holes in the context of quintessence and quantum gravity corrections. More importantly, we found that, unlike in the case of the Reissner-Nordström (RN) black hole, the qualitative behavior for the RN-AdS black hole with quintessence remain largely unchanged, except for minor differences, at the equation of state parameters <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>ω</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>q</mi></mrow></msub><mo>=</mo><mo>−</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>/</mo><mn>3</mn></math></span> and <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>ω</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>q</mi></mrow></msub><mo>=</mo><mo>−</mo><mn>2</mn><mo>/</mo><mn>3</mn></math></span>. In addition, unlike RN black holes, the phase transition point of RN-AdS black holes shift to almost zero.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20162,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters B","volume":"861 ","pages":"Article 139289"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143072390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physics Letters BPub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139288
R.A. Konoplya , A. Zhidenko
{"title":"Correspondence between grey-body factors and quasinormal frequencies for rotating black holes","authors":"R.A. Konoplya , A. Zhidenko","doi":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139288","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139288","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Although the proper oscillation frequencies of black holes (quasinormal modes) and the grey-body factors, which determine the scattering properties of black holes, represent two distinct spectral problems with different boundary conditions, a recent study has revealed an intrinsic connection between these quantities. We have shown that the correspondence between grey-body factors and quasinormal modes, previously established for spherically symmetric and asymptotically flat black holes, also extends to general parametrized axially symmetric black holes. This correspondence is limited to non-superradiant waves.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20162,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters B","volume":"861 ","pages":"Article 139288"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143072391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physics Letters BPub Date : 2025-01-27DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139284
Jun-Qian Jiang , Yun-Song Piao
{"title":"Search for the non-linearities of gravitational wave background in NANOGrav 15-year data set","authors":"Jun-Qian Jiang , Yun-Song Piao","doi":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139284","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139284","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The recently reported signal of common red noise between pulsars by several pulsar timing array collaborations has been thought as evidence of the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) due to the Helling-Downs correlation. In this Letter, we search for the non-Gaussianity of SGWB through its non-linear effect on the overlap reduction function in NANOGrav 15-year data set. In particular, we focus on a folded component to SGWB whose amplitude is quantified with a single parameter <em>α</em> in the unpolarized case. The resulting Bayes factor of <span><math><mn>1.68</mn><mo>±</mo><mn>0.01</mn></math></span> (<span><math><mn>1.78</mn><mo>±</mo><mn>0.01</mn></math></span> in the case of signals from SMBHBs) indicates that there is no evidence of such a non-Gaussianity of SGWB in the NANOGrav 15-year data yet. If it is detected in future PTA experiments, it will impact our understanding on the origin of the detected SGWB.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20162,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters B","volume":"862 ","pages":"Article 139284"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143072393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physics Letters BPub Date : 2025-01-22DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139281
P.G. Ortega , D.R. Entem , F. Fernández , J. Segovia
{"title":"Revisiting the proton-antiproton scattering using a constituent-quark-model based coupled-channels calculation","authors":"P.G. Ortega , D.R. Entem , F. Fernández , J. Segovia","doi":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139281","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139281","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Motivated by the last experimental and theoretical advances in the analysis of possible baryonium resonances, the <span><math><mi>X</mi><mo>(</mo><mn>1835</mn><mo>)</mo></math></span> and their partners, we perform a constituent-quark-model based coupled-channels calculation of the proton-antiproton scattering in order to analyze the possible existence of bound states or near-threshold structures. The used <span><math><mi>N</mi><mover><mrow><mi>N</mi></mrow><mo>‾</mo></mover></math></span> potential is derived from a <em>G</em>-parity transformation of the quark-model-based <em>NN</em> interaction which has described well deuteron properties, <em>NN</em> phase shifts, and even hadron-hadron phenomenology. The additional <span><math><mi>N</mi><mover><mrow><mi>N</mi></mrow><mo>‾</mo></mover></math></span> annihilation is taken into account by a complex phenomenological potential whose real part is generated by one-pion and one-gluon exchange annihilation potentials and its imaginary part is an energy-independent potential of Gaussian form. Then, all the parameters of the interaction are constrained by the <em>NN</em> sector except those determining the imaginary part of the annihilation potential. Our study concludes that the nucleon-antinucleon dynamics is complex and rich in scattering singularities near the proton-antiproton and neutron-antineutron thresholds.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20162,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters B","volume":"862 ","pages":"Article 139281"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143072396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physics Letters BPub Date : 2025-01-21DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139280
Xiaobin Wang (王晓斌) , Zanbin Xing (幸瓒彬) , Lei Chang (常雷) , Minghui Ding (丁明慧) , Khépani Raya , Craig D. Roberts
{"title":"Sketching pion and proton mass distributions","authors":"Xiaobin Wang (王晓斌) , Zanbin Xing (幸瓒彬) , Lei Chang (常雷) , Minghui Ding (丁明慧) , Khépani Raya , Craig D. Roberts","doi":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139280","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139280","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A light-front holographic model is used to illustrate an algebraic scheme for constructing a representation of a hadron's zero-skewness generalised parton distribution (GPD) from its valence-quark distribution function (DF) and electromagnetic form factor, <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>F</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>H</mi></mrow></msub></math></span>, without reference to deeply virtual Compton scattering data. The hadron's mass distribution gravitational form factor, <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>A</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>H</mi></mrow></msub></math></span>, calculated from this GPD is harder than <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>F</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>H</mi></mrow></msub></math></span>; and, for each hadron, the associated mass-density profile is more compact than the analogous charge profile, with each pion near-core density being larger than that of its proton partner. These features are independent of the scheme employed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20162,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters B","volume":"862 ","pages":"Article 139280"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143035324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physics Letters BPub Date : 2025-01-20DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139278
Sungsik Noh , Aaron Park , Hyeongock Yun , Sungtae Cho , Su Houng Lee
{"title":"The inevitable quark three-body force and its implications for exotic states","authors":"Sungsik Noh , Aaron Park , Hyeongock Yun , Sungtae Cho , Su Houng Lee","doi":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139278","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139278","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Three-body nuclear forces are essential for explaining the properties of light nuclei with a nucleon number greater than three. Building on insights from nuclear physics, we extract the form of quark three-body interactions and demonstrate that these terms are crucial for extending the quark model fit of the meson spectrum to include baryons using the same parameter set. We then discuss the implications of our findings for exotic configurations involving more than three quarks, such as the <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>c</mi><mi>c</mi></mrow></msub></math></span> and <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>χ</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>c</mi><mn>1</mn></mrow></msub><mo>(</mo><mn>3872</mn><mo>)</mo></math></span>. We find that the quark three-body interactions, which are valid at short ranges typical of a compact hadron, provide additional repulsion of more than 10 MeV for the compact configurations of both the <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>c</mi><mi>c</mi></mrow></msub></math></span> and <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>χ</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>c</mi><mn>1</mn></mrow></msub><mo>(</mo><mn>3872</mn><mo>)</mo></math></span>. Since most of the previous quark model calculations based on two-body quark interactions do not find the energies of compact configurations for the <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>c</mi><mi>c</mi></mrow></msub></math></span> and <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>χ</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>c</mi><mn>1</mn></mrow></msub><mo>(</mo><mn>3872</mn><mo>)</mo></math></span> to be as attractive as 10 MeV below the threshold, our results strongly suggest that these tetraquark states are unlikely to be compact states, leaving the molecular configuration as the likely viable option.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20162,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters B","volume":"862 ","pages":"Article 139278"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143035240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physics Letters BPub Date : 2025-01-20DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139271
Wenting Zhou , Shijing Cheng , Hongwei Yu
{"title":"Interaction between Unruh-Dewitt detectors exclusively due to acceleration: A parallel to the FDU effect","authors":"Wenting Zhou , Shijing Cheng , Hongwei Yu","doi":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139271","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139271","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We have discovered an interaction between two detectors in a vacuum that emerges exclusively due to acceleration, akin to the spontaneous excitation of a single detector as predicted by the Fulling-Davies-Unruh (FDU) effect. However, this interaction contrasts sharply with the FDU effect, which suggests that a uniformly accelerated detector behaves as if it were in a thermal bath, as the discovered interaction does not manifest in a thermal environment. The novel interaction displays unique dependencies on the separation between detectors: it can be either attractive or repulsive, with the potential to transition between these behaviors as the inter-detector separation changes. More intriguingly, it exhibits a surprising large-small duality in its dependence on acceleration, suggesting the existence of an optimal acceleration at which the interaction is strongest, in contrast to the monotonic acceleration-dependence of the FDU effect.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20162,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters B","volume":"862 ","pages":"Article 139271"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143035209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}